The Pursuit of Possibility: Redesigning Research Universities

Nigel Thrift

doi:10.46692/9781447364870

The Pursuit of Possibility

Redesigning Research Universities

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Nigel Thrift, University of Oxford

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: June 2023
Print publication year:: 2022
Online ISBN:: 9781447364870
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781447364870

Subjects:: Education, Education, History, Theory

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Nigel Thrift explores recent changes in the British research university that threaten to erode the quality of these higher education institutions. He considers what a research university has now become by examining the quandaries that have arisen from a succession of misplaced strategies and false expectations.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-vii

Preface and Acknowledgements
pp viii-xii

1 - Is That a ‘University’? I’m not Sure
pp 1-20

Part I - The Research University
pp 21-22

2 - So What is a ‘University’? Part 1: Architecture and Academics
pp 23-71

3 - So What is a ‘University’? Part 2: Students, Parents and Other Constituencies
pp 72-100

Part II - The Contemporary British University System
pp 101-102

4 - A New Robbins? Recent Changes in British Universities
pp 103-122

5 - The Hardy Perennials
pp 123-164

6 - The Australianisation of British Higher Education
pp 165-193

7 - On Vice-Chancelloring — a Footnote
pp 194-210

Part III - The Research University of the Future
pp 211-212

8 - So What is a Research University?
pp 213-240

9 - Redesigning the Research University
pp 241-258

Notes
pp 259-271

References
pp 272-293

Index
pp 294-301

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